John Yarr on Consciousness

 

QUESTION 1

What is Consciousness? Is it a limit that goes up to the lower mental level, while awareness above, is Buddhic? How, myself, can I access my Buddhic body?

 

ANSWER

When the term consciousness is used, it should mean all the limits which play a part in the intelligent understanding of creation, including intelligence itself. However, consciousness does not know how it itself, came into existence.

Any limit is ultimately a prison, as is any experience. Hence, we must get beyond all of these limits. This is what Grace is for. We cannot have an up or down consciousness. The human body uses the nervous system to interpret the physical universe and centres with the etheric and astral energy system, to feel finer awareness to a limited degree.

The Buddhic plane, (Buddhi means ‘knower’ in Sanskrit) for want of a better expression, is not under the control of any person. On the contrary, the individual is visited by Buddhi and not the other way round. Buddhi needs an object to demonstrate its existence, i.e. a person, place, or thing.

Look at these KOAN questions:

“Does a dog have Buddha nature?”

“What face did you have before you were in your mother’s womb?”

“I hold up this object (a stick), and you say that ‘it is a stick’. I say you are wrong’. Then you say ‘it is not a stick’ and I say ‘you are wrong. What is it?

These typical KOAN statements are designed to help develop the Buddhic awareness. This, of course, is not Enlightenment or access to Light and Sound, but it does allow the individual to discover the space in which the object is sitting not the object itself. It can take between 6 years and 40 to achieve, so a long process, and if you did, it will not be Enlightenment but a state of insightfulness. This is still highly prized as it shows how limited the intellect is. The intellect only discovers meaning through comparison, while Buddhic nature does not, as there is no comparison used when Buddhi is present.

 

QUESTION 2

What ‘sees’ in meditation? Is it ‘intelligence”?

 

ANSWER 

In Enlightenment, ‘seeing’ and ‘being’ are the same, whereas in consciousness ‘seeing’ brings no awareness of being’ in any self created way. Therefore, intelligence is only for limits. Space has no need of intelligence. Having no form, intelligence is that which organises the beginning, middle and ending of any person, place or thing.

So, when we attain Enlightenment, we discover that this ultimate state does not touch creation at all, and there is a definite separation between the state and creation. In this separation operates intelligence which is then organising all the various awarenesses we find in consciousness. Consciousness itself never attains Enlightenment and has no idea of what Enlightenment actually is.

We do need to develop intuition, which allows us a faster and more accurate perception of how limits work and how consciousness is constructed. Intuition is a consequence of intelligence, as intelligence organises consciousness but cannot be found by consciousness; in the same way as the eye sees but cannot see itself and the ear hears, but cannot hear itself.

Intuition needs a limit to work with, but is designed to perceive cause and effect far better than intellect, psychism or instinct. Psychism is aura based and allows the psychic person to become aware of limits which may manifest before they actually physically occur. Instinct is caused by repetition, or the result of a habit which is formed when we have an action but do not pay attention to it.

All knowledge is fatalistic. This is because it is about limits and experience and these have beginnings, middle and endings. As such, they are in cycles of manifestation and so are fatalistic.

Creation hides the absolute. It cannot reveal it, as the absolute, having no shape or form, does not demonstrate. It cannot be “known” or “experienced”. We can only “BE” the absolute. 

Effects cannot give rise to causes, so we cannot do anything for the absolute.

Because all consciousness is about forming “centres”, and these centres only discover limits then when we use concentration we only discover limits. Consciousness is not free, it is an experience and all experience is a prison, even if it is a nice prison.

 

QUESTION 3

Is creation inside God? Is it infinite? How can I become more conscious?

 

ANSWER

Words can be traps, and the mind and thought are also limits. Therefore, a word like ‘infinity’ is meaningless to the mind as it always wants a beginning and an ending.

The mind only deals with limits and experiences and cannot discover the cause of itself. Hence, enquiry by the mind will only discover fatalism and never the ultimate state, which is not an experience.

Creation is neither inside, nor outside God, as God has no limit. With no limits we cannot be inside or outside. Creation has a mass, but it has no location. 

We cannot destroy anything to no-thing-ness, so, as action cannot visit action-less-ness onto anything, then nothing can actually be destroyed. If nothing can be totally destroyed then nothing can be created either, therefore matter is infinite. However, it is not the Truth as the Truth unlike matter never changes and is aware of its selfcreated-ness.

Also, it is essential to meditate, otherwise we can be tricked into believing the words going on in our minds. When we use words, we believe that knowing what they mean, in terms of language, is the same as having an experience of that word and of course this can be untrue.

There are many deep questions concerning consciousness, but unless we become good at letting go in meditation, and become capable of regularly sitting in stillness, then the activity of our mind just causes confusion when we seek answers to deeper questions.

God does not act, as it is not limited, it is a state of BEING. Consciousness, however, will never become a state of BEING, and so can only act. Action is always in a cycle and is, therefore, like all experience, a prison. So, we have to get beyond all action to action-less-ness, which means going beyond all Light and Sound, which is the basis of creation.

 

QUESTION 4

Is the mind the limit of all limits?

 

ANSWER

 No, the mind is a limit, but the mind did not make itself. So, what made the mind, “intelligence”, is obviously a greater limit than the mind.

When we are using our awareness, and we are not yet Enlightened, then the awareness we are using will itself also be a limit. The limit we are using cannot see itself, so even though we can apparently be “aware”, the centre we are using will only discover limits and not limitlessness.

All “knowledge” is a limit, as are all experiences, and therefore they have a beginning, middle and ending. These are, therefore, traps or prisons, and it is not until we want to discover how to “be”, that we discover that in fact we are in a trap.van

God is not a limit and is therefore not anno experience, so we cannot talk to God, or chat to God. God, being absolute and self created and therefore perfect, does not have any plan, or have any wants or needs.

From the perspective of God, creation is perfect, so it will not be getting “fixed” as it does not need fixing.

When we think, we repeat the world in our head. Hence, even though we can be philosophical or intuitive, or develop various ideas about creation, they are, in the end, just limits. Limits produce experiences, which are boundaries and are always inside. We cannot think freedom, even if we use the word.

 

QUESTION 5

Can we be conscious of God?

 

ANSWER

Consciousness never knows God, and there is always an unknown within consciousness.

God has no unknowns and is aware of itself from its own self-created-ness.

God can observe consciousness without being restricted by its limits, whereas consciousness is never aware of God.

We cannot come from nor get back to God, it is absolute.

Only God is ever God.

Consciousness has a thousand centres, God has none.

God is never a question, consciousness only has questions.

In God, ‘seeing’ and ‘being’ are the same. In consciousness, there is no being, and seeing always has an unknown in it.